moai

Rapa Nui mo'ai (“statue, figurine”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoʊ.aɪ/

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moai (plural moai or moais)

1. One of the large stone statues on Easter Island (Rapa Nui).
   • 2012, John Loret; John T. Tanacredi, Easter Island, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 26:

     As the years passed, the Moais and Ahus became larger and larger, many with red scoria top crowns weighing as much as ten tons.

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• ahu (“the stone platform of the moai”)

• moai on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IMAO, MAOI, MIOA, Maio, Miao, amio

From Proto-Samic *monōj.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɑ̯j/

moai

1. we (two)

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

moai m (plural moais)

1. moai (type of stone statue on Easter Island)

moai m (plural moais)

1. moai

Borrowed from Dutch mooi (“pretty, nice”).

• IPA^(key): /moːj/

moai

1. beautiful, pretty, nice

“moai”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011